‘The Magician’ unwraps the life of literary giant Thomas Mann
Sep 07, 2021
3 minutes
Seventeen years after he published “The Master,” his bravura novel about Henry James, Irish writer Colm Tóibín takes on another literary titan in this powerful historical novel about German novelist and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann.
“The Magician” masterfully weaves together Tóibín’s take on Mann’s personal and interior life with the creation of his major works – including “Death in Venice,” “The Magic Mountain,” and “Doctor Faustus” – against the backdrop of the insidious rise of Nazism. Hitler’s election in 1933 sent Mann, his wife Katia
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